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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 6: Chapter 16 ("A Winged Steed") through Chapter 18 ("Repairs and Fortifications").

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the narrator's first response to Juno and Turk?
(a) They will be helpful in hunting.
(b) They are useless.
(c) They will be able to help the family swim to shore.
(d) They will be good security for the family.

2. Chapter 10, "Changing Seasons," what does the family find that will allow Elizabeth to make cloth?
(a) A loom.
(b) Cotton.
(c) A spinning wheel.
(d) Flax.

3. In Chapter 17, "Bounty and Peril," the family works at "threshing" and "winnowing" a crop (268). What does this mean that they are doing?
(a) They separate older from younger plants so that the younger plants can keep growing.
(b) They use a crushing machine to grind the crop into flour.
(c) They separate the usable from the non-usuable parts of the plant.
(d) They harvest the crop and then plow the field under to rest.

4. In Chapter 16, "A Winged Steed," how does the family try to secure the Gap before they leave the area?
(a) They create a watchtower, complete with a cannon.
(b) They build a bamboo fence.
(c) They build an earthen mound and plant thorn bushes.
(d) The use explosives to fill it in with rock.

5. What dangerous predator does Fritz shoot near their new home in the grove of trees?
(a) A wolf.
(b) A margay.
(c) A hyena.
(d) A tiger.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the family end up alone on the ship?

2. In Chapter 11, "Our Estates," what new outpost does the narrator propose?

3. What does Franz make with the reeds that his brothers bring him?

4. What does Fritz do that causes the narrator to tell him that he is the oldest and needs to set a better example?

5. The title of Chapter 9 is "A Growing Menagerie." What is a menagerie?

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